An entertainment blog that was started in 2006, ignored from 2009 to 2011 due to work commitments & the advent of social media. Is back on line as of Jan. 22, 2012.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Not much time today, just enough time to trash Wal-Mart

HOW BIG IS WAL-MART? .......... I was blown away by these mind-boggling statistics on Wal-Mart!

1. At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer.6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are SuperCenters; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's pop. is approximately 6.5 billion).12. 90% of Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.

Walmart, although a great success story of business that has brought cheaper goods to our homes, is also a symbol of America's decline.

Walmart does not make anything. It only sells items that are made in China. Walmart is our number one employer when at one time companies like General Motors, Bethlehem Steel and Westinghouse were our major employers. This shift shows that jobs have left our country for China. Look what is happening to General Motors and Ford. Americans now work for low paying Walmart jobs when their parents worked for high paying union jobs at industrial manufacturing companies that are now in China.